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    FOSS stories, some sharing
  2. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  3. Programming Leftovers
    Development themed links
  4. Open Hardware/Modding/Retro: LinuxPDF, Amiga, and Raspberry Pi
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  5. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
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  6. Which Linux Distro Is Best for Privacy?
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  7. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
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  8. Games: Banning Steam Deck Users and Classic Video Game ("Prince of Persia") Helped Spread Linux
    Games articles; a pair
  9. Security, FUD, and Scams
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  10. today's howtos
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  11. Games: MOO List, Godot 4.4 Beta 3, and More
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  12. New Releases of EasyOS: Version 6.6.2 of EasyOS Daedalus-series and of EasyOS Scarthgap-series
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  13. today's leftovers
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  14. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  15. Android Leftovers
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  16. OnlyOffice Desktop Editor 8.3 Added Apple iWorks, PDF Stamps Support
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  17. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support is Coming To An End
    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is nearing the end of its original five-year support cycle
  18. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  19. Snal Linux – Arch based live distribution
    Snal Linux is an Arch-based distro intended to be used as a live image from portable media
  20. This Week in Plasma: Final Plasma 6.3 Polishing
    Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"
  21. This Week in GNOME: #186 Media Parsing
    Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 31 to February 07
  22. Slimbook Titan report 5 - The mojo has returned ...
    I will address all sorts of different aspects of everyday usage, including gaming, which is one of the major blockers for leaving Windows and its silliness behind
  23. Games: Everwarder, A Game About Digging A Hole, Cast n Chill, and More
    Latest from GamingOnLinux
  24. The year of the Linux desktop has arrived
    OS-level AI integration is not the future of personal computing, or at least, it’s not in my future.
  25. Security Leftovers
    Security news
  26. Programming Leftovers
    Development news
  27. ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ Playable On Steam Deck and Steam Console Rumours?
    Games related picks
  28. Red Hat and CentOS Leftovers
    CentOS plus FOSDEM 2025
  29. Open Hardware: Pimoroni, Arduino, Fairphone
    Open Hardware leftovers
  30. Today in Techrights
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